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Best to have an iron initially available for the celebratory party (4,5)

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bean feast

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'the celebratory party' is the definition.
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'best to have an iron initially available' is the wordplay.
'to have' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'iron' becomes 'Fe' (Fe is the chemical symbol for iron).
'initially' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'available' is 'a'.
'an'+'fe'+'a'='anfea'
'best' enclosing 'anfea' is 'BEAN-FEAST'.

'for' acts as a link.

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